Scary reaction to flu shot in Loudoun...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Desiree was on antibiotics for months prior to the regular flu shot.

Where does it say on the CDC Flu.gov website that someone taking antibiotics anytime in the past few months shouldn't get a flu shot?

Don't bother asking for a straight answer. There are some serious pharmaceutical industry apologists on this thread. Their responses are so knee-jerk that I wonder if they pare paid "social media" experts.

[Anonymous]

It does not say that - and no one is saying that antibiotics and the flu shot should not be mixed, but one should consider why she was on antibiotics and if that health concern had anything to do with the reaction she had from the flu shot. Perhaps her immune system was weak. Who knows. She could just be the unlucky 1 in a million ppl who had a bad reaction to the shot indeed. We dont know any facts is all I am saying. It is an a sad story but one should not rule out that perhaps being sick enough to be on antibiotics could have caused a bad reaction to the vax.

[Anonymous]

http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-guide/flu-treatment-antibiotics-or-not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-guide/flu-treatment-antibiotics-or-not

This doesn't seem to address any contraindications of getting a flu shot while on antibiotics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-guide/flu-treatment-antibiotics-or-not

This doesn't seem to address any contraindications of getting a flu shot while on antibiotics.

But it talks about how if antibiotics are used incorrectly, it can do harm. It also says that abusing it can cause you to be resistant.
My point for posting it is that since the girl in the article was on them for months...we dont know if her condition or resistance to the antibiotic caused her condition to remain dormant and therefore had a reaction to the flu shot. I am just trying to point out that we dont have all the facts in the OP's article.

[Anonymous]

OP, just stay away from the flu shot, it will leave more for those willing to risk it. The chance of getting what ever it is this girl got is a lot lower than getting the flu and the flu does kill, every year. Not maybe, not only the sick, unhealthy, but in this country alone it kills aprox. 30-50k people. How many people are going to get dystonia from the flu shot this year? 1 in a million? I will take my chance on the shot and thank God there are those out there busting their ass to come up with flu shots for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, just stay away from the flu shot, it will leave more for those willing to risk it. The chance of getting what ever it is this girl got is a lot lower than getting the flu and the flu does kill, every year. Not maybe, not only the sick, unhealthy, but in this country alone it kills aprox. 30-50k people. How many people are going to get dystonia from the flu shot this year? 1 in a million? I will take my chance on the shot and thank God there are those out there busting their ass to come up with flu shots for us.

It kills 30-50K people with underlying health issues each year -- the same people most PPs are cluck clucking about regarding this article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, just stay away from the flu shot, it will leave more for those willing to risk it. The chance of getting what ever it is this girl got is a lot lower than getting the flu and the flu does kill, every year. Not maybe, not only the sick, unhealthy, but in this country alone it kills aprox. 30-50k people. How many people are going to get dystonia from the flu shot this year? 1 in a million? I will take my chance on the shot and thank God there are those out there busting their ass to come up with flu shots for us.

It kills 30-50K people with underlying health issues each year -- the same people most PPs are cluck clucking about regarding this article.

No, many are healthy kids. Being a young child is a health risk in itself really, so the PP's point stands. One in a million is less risky to me than the number of healthy kids that die from flu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, just stay away from the flu shot, it will leave more for those willing to risk it. The chance of getting what ever it is this girl got is a lot lower than getting the flu and the flu does kill, every year. Not maybe, not only the sick, unhealthy, but in this country alone it kills aprox. 30-50k people. How many people are going to get dystonia from the flu shot this year? 1 in a million? I will take my chance on the shot and thank God there are those out there busting their ass to come up with flu shots for us.

It kills 30-50K people with underlying health issues each year -- the same people most PPs are cluck clucking about regarding this article.

No, many are healthy kids. Being a young child is a health risk in itself really, so the PP's point stands. One in a million is less risky to me than the number of healthy kids that die from flu.

From the CDC --
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm

What are seasonal flu-related deaths?

Seasonal flu-related deaths are deaths that occur in people for whom seasonal influenza infection was likely a contributor to the cause of death, but not necessarily the primary cause of death.

[Anonymous]

Okay, again, don't care about the semantics. Don't want my kid dying of "respiratory illness associated with the flu" or the flu. I'll take a shot against either one, okie dokie?

To all the people adamantly opposed to the flu shot - it is fine if you don't want to get your child the shot, but please don't act as if you the sole bearer of knowledge, and you must educate all of us idiots who have been brainwashed by big, bad pharma. I've done my research on this. I am very well educated. I'm intelligent. I can weigh the benefits vs. harms on my own. This is what I've decided. Stories like this show me that one in a million people getting the seasonal flu shot will have this problem, maybe.

No matter how you argue it, you can't hide the facts - the flu can be very serious and deadly for some kids. I'm not taking the risk that my kid will be one of these statistics. There are no guarantees, but the shot is something I can do to help prevent this. If you think the vaccine for the flu is more risky than the flu, than fine. But don't pretend this is all made up or that you are not taking any risk by doing this.

My child got the seasonal flu shot last month, so at this point I think we are safe. Score one for me I guess - I can now check dystonia off the list of things to worry about!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, again, don't care about the semantics. Don't want my kid dying of "respiratory illness associated with the flu" or the flu. I'll take a shot against either one, okie dokie?

To all the people adamantly opposed to the flu shot - it is fine if you don't want to get your child the shot, but please don't act as if you the sole bearer of knowledge, and you must educate all of us idiots who have been brainwashed by big, bad pharma. I've done my research on this. I am very well educated. I'm intelligent. I can weigh the benefits vs. harms on my own. This is what I've decided. Stories like this show me that one in a million people getting the seasonal flu shot will have this problem, maybe.

No matter how you argue it, you can't hide the facts - the flu can be very serious and deadly for some kids. I'm not taking the risk that my kid will be one of these statistics. There are no guarantees, but the shot is something I can do to help prevent this. If you think the vaccine for the flu is more risky than the flu, than fine. But don't pretend this is all made up or that you are not taking any risk by doing this.

My child got the seasonal flu shot last month, so at this point I think we are safe. Score one for me I guess - I can now check dystonia off the list of things to worry about!

amen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, again, don't care about the semantics. Don't want my kid dying of "respiratory illness associated with the flu" or the flu. I'll take a shot against either one, okie dokie?

To all the people adamantly opposed to the flu shot - it is fine if you don't want to get your child the shot, but please don't act as if you the sole bearer of knowledge, and you must educate all of us idiots who have been brainwashed by big, bad pharma. I've done my research on this. I am very well educated. I'm intelligent. I can weigh the benefits vs. harms on my own. This is what I've decided. Stories like this show me that one in a million people getting the seasonal flu shot will have this problem, maybe.

No matter how you argue it, you can't hide the facts - the flu can be very serious and deadly for some kids. I'm not taking the risk that my kid will be one of these statistics. There are no guarantees, but the shot is something I can do to help prevent this. If you think the vaccine for the flu is more risky than the flu, than fine. But don't pretend this is all made up or that you are not taking any risk by doing this.

My child got the seasonal flu shot last month, so at this point I think we are safe. Score one for me I guess - I can now check dystonia off the list of things to worry about!

If you were so intelligent and well educated, you would have read that the CDC counted deaths where flu CONTRIBUTED TO BUT DID NOT CAUSE the death. (I.e., the person had another health issue and the flu pushed them over the edge.) It's not semantics.

[Anonymous]

Oh my gosh, now I've read it all. I fully vaccinate my children and am not opposed to any vaccines, but those of you who are claiming that there are not rare but serious side-effects to every single vaccination have your heads firmly up your asses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, again, don't care about the semantics. Don't want my kid dying of "respiratory illness associated with the flu" or the flu. I'll take a shot against either one, okie dokie?

To all the people adamantly opposed to the flu shot - it is fine if you don't want to get your child the shot, but please don't act as if you the sole bearer of knowledge, and you must educate all of us idiots who have been brainwashed by big, bad pharma. I've done my research on this. I am very well educated. I'm intelligent. I can weigh the benefits vs. harms on my own. This is what I've decided. Stories like this show me that one in a million people getting the seasonal flu shot will have this problem, maybe.

No matter how you argue it, you can't hide the facts - the flu can be very serious and deadly for some kids. I'm not taking the risk that my kid will be one of these statistics. There are no guarantees, but the shot is something I can do to help prevent this. If you think the vaccine for the flu is more risky than the flu, than fine. But don't pretend this is all made up or that you are not taking any risk by doing this.

My child got the seasonal flu shot last month, so at this point I think we are safe. Score one for me I guess - I can now check dystonia off the list of things to worry about!

If you were so intelligent and well educated, you would have read that the CDC counted deaths where flu CONTRIBUTED TO BUT DID NOT CAUSE the death. (I.e., the person had another health issue and the flu pushed them over the edge.) It's not semantics.

My apologies, you are right - the flu is not big deal for anyone. Young kids NEVER die of it or anything related to it, or end up in the hospital. My bad. How silly of me.

And by the way, it IS semantics. You just proved my point exactly. The flu CONTRIBUTES to the death - like I said, don't give a rat's ass about the semantics. That is good enough for me, we'll take the shot.

[Anonymous]

Who said Desiree was on antibiotics month prior to her illness? First hand experience?